As a result other women are coming out of the shadows to share similar stories about him. And she probably knew what a firestorm would be triggered within the “Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan” community of tens of thousands of teachers and students around the world. So scarred from that experience, that only now, all these many years later, has she summoned the strength to share her Truth. For 16 years she devoutly served him in an existence buffeted by on-going manipulation, emotional and sexual abuse and betrayal. The book, Premka, My Life with Yogi Bhajan, is authored by a former follower, who was swept into his world in 1968 at the age of 25. And now, a book recently released, exposes the devastating shadow side of the charismatic Yogi Bhajan. He gained quite a following – as THE teacher of Kundalini Yoga and the whole lifestyle associated with it. He arrived from India in the turbulent ’60s when young people were foundering and wanting direction. And when we’re seeking “wellbeing” – whatever that might be for you – peace, meaning in your life, emotional healing, we’re often desperately seeking answers to how we can find it.Īnd this hunger is why exotic holy men like Yogi Bhajan were so captivating. But for so many of us, religious and spiritual approaches in our Western culture have failed us. I can’t speak to the motivation over all of why we do this.
And, of course, our long and steadfast pursuit of “holy men” from India and other parts of Asia. We dip into the spirit medicine of indigenous peoples in North America. We embrace medicine men from South America and Africa – a lot of it having to do with psychedelics. As it happened with other powerful yoga systems like Bikram Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga, the main importance is to focus on the techniques and wisdom of yoga that are a blessing to our times and go beyond any person or personality transmitting it.In our Western culture, we’re drawn to the exotic approaches in other parts of the world that hold the promise of helping us get in touch with our Inner Self. He was a human being with many lights and some painful shadows, too. Nevertheless, he is not to be up on a pedestal. Yogi Bhajan was a teacher of radiant light and deep wisdom. Some key ideas about the currently unfolding new global paradigm and era were delivered by him already in the 1970’s. Nowadays, the ideas and know-how that he synthesized and transmitted, are unravelling the energies, sensitivity and consciousness of people across the globe. Until his passing in 2004 he managed to teach and transmit techniques and know-how to experience the vital energies by using Kundalini Yoga, innovative meditations, and elevating mantras. He founded an international boarding school in India (Miri Piri Academy) and created several multimillion dollar businesses in the USA and Europe. Yogi Bhajan was a religious Sikh leader, Tantric and Kundalini Yoga Master with a PhD in the “Psychology of Communication”. Soon after he founded 3HO (Healthy, Happy and Holy Organization) that became an NGO that joined the United Nations in 1994.
Yogi Bhajan came from India to North America and started teaching Kundalini Yoga in 1968.